oh, i'm laughing muchly. i've never had someone criticize my original fiction before. i suppose it's about time. of course, i get this feeling that from one story, they're telling me i just generally don't do it for them. which is okay, i guess, but......
it was`of frogs and princes', of all things. i think i forget just how much one can find wrong with something so entrenched in its genre, as well as unedited, but still. i wish they wouldn't have generalized my writing from that. but, i suppose that's what judgment is all about, eh. i suppose the biggest complaint was, "where am i going with this", which, well, i guess you could say about 'most everything i write, think, say or do.
er. that's probably not a good thing. i -can- name a couple of stories that have a "point", but honestly, they're few and far-between, aren't they. i should write my warfic just to spite everybody (me?) who would want to say i never write anything with a point. but then you could deconstruct that and say, "so okay, harry & draco saved the world, but what's the point?" ahahaha. or maybe that's just me.
but there really isn't much i can do about style, though well-- that story doesn't exactly showcase all that i -could- be, it's not antithetical, either, so. wah. there are like, legions and legions of people, i'm sure, for whom my style is like a cold compress in december. and that doesn't even have to mean i suck. er. probably. eek.
man. if i ever do go public as a writer, there'll be all these people saying, `whatchoo sayin', willis', and i'll be-- um. um. nothing? help? i can't write, okay, i give up, save me, save me!
it's kind of scary, 'cause usually i don't have a plan, or an excuse, or an edit(!!) or... it's sort of like with me. you either get it or you don't, or maybe that's just excuses so i don't have to edit, edit, edit-- that's what it is, yah ok. also, people disagreeing with me too strongly, without, i dunno, discussing... like, there is so much focus (with some people) on what they -think- is true, and not so much desire to let go of their preset conclusions and bat ideas around anyway. why don't people do that more? like, pretend you don't know what you know, and try to arrive at that conclusion again, and again. like, tumbling down your house of cards merely to build it up again. that's what good conversations on the nature of love & reality are made of... i think. but then... that's just what i think, sadly. or not-so sadly.
( and now, for discussion on the nature of discussion. yes, i am THAT SAD, okay. )
it was`of frogs and princes', of all things. i think i forget just how much one can find wrong with something so entrenched in its genre, as well as unedited, but still. i wish they wouldn't have generalized my writing from that. but, i suppose that's what judgment is all about, eh. i suppose the biggest complaint was, "where am i going with this", which, well, i guess you could say about 'most everything i write, think, say or do.
er. that's probably not a good thing. i -can- name a couple of stories that have a "point", but honestly, they're few and far-between, aren't they. i should write my warfic just to spite everybody (me?) who would want to say i never write anything with a point. but then you could deconstruct that and say, "so okay, harry & draco saved the world, but what's the point?" ahahaha. or maybe that's just me.
but there really isn't much i can do about style, though well-- that story doesn't exactly showcase all that i -could- be, it's not antithetical, either, so. wah. there are like, legions and legions of people, i'm sure, for whom my style is like a cold compress in december. and that doesn't even have to mean i suck. er. probably. eek.
man. if i ever do go public as a writer, there'll be all these people saying, `whatchoo sayin', willis', and i'll be-- um. um. nothing? help? i can't write, okay, i give up, save me, save me!
it's kind of scary, 'cause usually i don't have a plan, or an excuse, or an edit(!!) or... it's sort of like with me. you either get it or you don't, or maybe that's just excuses so i don't have to edit, edit, edit-- that's what it is, yah ok. also, people disagreeing with me too strongly, without, i dunno, discussing... like, there is so much focus (with some people) on what they -think- is true, and not so much desire to let go of their preset conclusions and bat ideas around anyway. why don't people do that more? like, pretend you don't know what you know, and try to arrive at that conclusion again, and again. like, tumbling down your house of cards merely to build it up again. that's what good conversations on the nature of love & reality are made of... i think. but then... that's just what i think, sadly. or not-so sadly.
( and now, for discussion on the nature of discussion. yes, i am THAT SAD, okay. )
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